Slate's 32-year-old NPR-aholic Farhad Manjoo lets off steam about much older (mentally, if not chronologically) listeners and their predictable bile when "Morning Edition" or "All Things Considered" does 2 minutes on pop culture or jaded views of celebrities after spending most of the hour on Libya (not to mention anything favorable about new tech or anything about sports other than the late Red Barber talking about the camellias blooming to Col. Bob before reminiscing about Cookie Lavagetto):
http://www.slate.com/id/2286927/pagenum/all/ For their part, NPR says that after the first wave of negative E-mails and web site posts, the comments on the back-of-the-book pieces are more favorable--they don't air them in the weekly letters segments because they don't want to put on listener butt-kissing (or at least hold it until pledge time). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
